You can enable Skype two-factor authentication by turning the security feature on in your Microsoft Account settings.

Passwords are the worst. They can be cracked, forced open in attacked, guessed, reused, sold in data breaches, created with weak practices and stored poorly even when the best password managers are ...

Two-factor authentication is the best protection against any of those, plus so much more. I'll explain what it is and why you should enable it whenever possible. Sometimes called 2-factor ...

If you haven’t seen your data exposed in a major data breach within the last five years alone, you haven’t been paying attention. Billions of people worldwide have lost their data many times over. 26 ...

Authentication has been a part of digital life since MIT set up a password on their shared-access computer in 1961. Today, authentication covers virtually every interaction you can have on the ...

In “LastPass Publishes More Details about Its Data Breaches” (3 March 2023), I talked about how I decided to move my two-factor authentication (2FA) codes from Authy to 1Password and how the process ...

Two-factor authentication is a security process that requires users to provide two distinct authentication factors to access an account. By introducing a second layer ...